Welcome to October. In true fall spirit and in the honor of our first fall in the new house we (mostly Rachel) decided to decorate the house for fall/Thanksgiving. I cut coupons out of the Sunday paper to JoAnn Fabrics and we were on our way. I was really searching for a cute fall wreathe for our back door. After looking at the selection available we decided to dare to be crafty and assemble our own super cool fall wreathe. So we picked up the different pieces and began putting together a pretty awesome wreathe. This lady, an employee stocking the shelf was totally spying on us. She came up to us after about a minute and said, “You need a bow.” (imagine a nazi tone with an old lady voice) She lead us to an isle with pretty fall ribbon and stood there until we awkwardly took some ribbon. She walked and away and we put it back because this wasn’t supposed to be a country living wreathe it was a super cool trendy wreath. Anyway, we were sorta intimated by her. She kept watching us and it seemed like she was following us down the isles spying if we had bought a stupid bow. So we went to the check out and as the girl was ringing us up one of the flowers didn’t have a price tag. She paged over the system, “Anne to the front for a price check.” At that point I was like, crud, she is going to see that we didn’t get a bow and she is going to make us buy one. Well she came and helped us out with the price and then said in that voice, “You didn’t buy a bow, did you?” and walked away. Needless to say we were cracking up in the parking lot and glad to have survived without a bow.

So lately we have been looking into adopting a racing greyhound. We are mid application process and starting to get excited.Just wanted to let everyone know what the life of a past racer is like and what can happen if no one opens their home. Check out some cute pics and some info at gpaindy.org GPA is a local greyhound rescue group.We will keep you posted on the progress and if we get a dog.

“…Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.”
Matthew 12:25

I read this today and got to thinking about our nation (kingdom) it seems to me that just about every day there is a story on the news about how Democrats and Republicans are fighting on capital hill. There is always someone talking about this state is a red state, this state is a blue state, and that is a purple state (2004 words of the year). It seems to me that with every day we as a nation become more and more divided. Are we heading from ruins? Where is our current path leading us?

Just a thought, What do you think (leave a comment and tell me what you think)?

Well today I am working from home….well kinda from home I had to take my car into the shop YUCK it keeps leaking engine coolant (I think that is a bad thing). So I embarked on a journey to good old Big O’s they are ALOT cheaper than the dealership. After taking my car in I decided to go and work at Starbucks so I could utilize what I thought was free Internet only to find out that they don’t have free Internet needless to say I was disappointed but they still suckered me into a large coffee. So I didn’t know what to do because I am lost with out Internet I can’t do anything after all my job is a “Web Developer”. So I started the trek over to Panera Bread which seemed like a good idea at the start but 20 feet down the road I found out why no one walks around Plainfield because they all got ran over by the crazy P-town drivers. Don’t worry I made it to Panera and found a nice chair in the back of the room to start being productive in with their FREE wireless. Just after I sat down I was greeted by a Panera Employee asking if I wanted to try a FREE sample of there souffle (Starbucks doesn’t have souffle) of course I said yes. In the mater of about 5 min at Panera I got FREE Internet and a FREE souffle. If you were counting that is 2 to 0 in favor of Panera (the place to be).

So it is starting to look like a fence check it out

“To Two Old Men working on a Fence” Caption by Chris Shore

Yep its true, some of you are probably saying to your self “this is new news? I think not.” But yes, I am totally ticked at my self. This morning I got up at 5:15 like I usually do to go to work, got ready, drove 35 minutes, drank my coffee to get the day going. I walked into the report room (Im an RN) and the charge nurse says, “Rachel, are you supposed to be here today?” I was like “Umm, Yes”. The conversation continued. She said, “Well you are not on my board, go check the master schedule.” Turns out I am supposed to work Thursday, not Tuesday this week. Those darn days that start with “T” always throw me off.

This past Sunday we celebrated Jason’s 25th b-day. Yeah. Fullfiling my wife-ly duty I made him his favorite cake Angel food cake with sprinkles. Now last year I added the sprinkles to the batter too early and the cake turned a pretty shade of purple. Tasted great, but not quite fitting for a 24 year old man’s birthday cake. So this year bound and determined to make a better cake I bought different sprinkles. Applying the principle more is better I added close to 2 cups of sprinkles to the batter. Pretty proud of my self I put the cake in the oven, removed it at the proper time, and allowed it to cool. Just before it was time to blow out the candles I tried to get the cake out of the pan. To my surprise it seemed to be stuck so I gave it a good shake and plop it came out. It seems that I added perhaps too many sprinkles and that they all fell to the bottom of the cake. The cake had a brown, melted candy top layer. It looked like a doughnut. Also it seems because of the increased sprinkles to cake batter ratio the cake was unable to rise and produce the fluffy angel food texture and taste. Bummer, strike two. So next year I am hoping that the third time is a charm. Happy birthday Jason

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